Mother Nature puts on a show, coast to coast

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It doesn't matter which corner of the nation you live in, you can always find some beauty in weather.

We begin with the photo above, taken by YouNews contributor andersonrose1 from Lake Stevens, posted on Saturday morning.

How does this do that? It's no Photoshop trick!

The surface of the of water freezes first, sealing in the water below. As that water begins to freeze, it expands, creating higher pressure under the ice lid. Eventually, the pressure will either cause a small crack or opening in the ice where water will start to dribble out -- sort of like squeezing a tube of toothpaste.

How about something a bit warmer? Briana Matherson tweeted this photo of shelf cloud from Panama City, Florida on Friday.

The shelf clouds are common in strong thunderstorms when you get a gust of wind expanding out from the storm's downdraft. The wind can push some warm, humid air ahead and create its own line of clouds -- sort of like a mini cold front right along the base of the clouds.

Not to be outdone, KOMO News photographer Eric Jensen found these mammatus clouds -- also associated with strong rain or thunderstorms. This was taken recently near Roslyn, Washington

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The sometimes-eerie-looking "Hat" clouds -- officially known as lenticular clouds -- are no stranger to Mt. Rainier. But while to many it might just look like a cloud frozen in time, there is actually quite a bit of air movement involved in making the clouds.

KOMO News photographer Mitch Pittman was up hiking in the Cascades recently and managed to get this amazing time lapse video (above) of a lenticular cloud sitting atop Mt. Rainier. The video is a great illustration of the flow that goes into making the cloud's lens-type feature.

There's "relentless"... and then there's the current weather pattern that has had the Pacific Northwest running a meteorological version of months-long fever that still shows no signs of breaking anytime soon.